Things on my mind tend to be left unsaid. I have failed to speak my mind and share my thoughts time and time again. I have become a failure. You see, the voice of a failure speaks softly and drowns out the truth within its words or doesn't speak at all. A failure is not a person, but a choice. A failure is referred to as an “it” for that exact reason: its a choice. A person chooses to fail. In the contrary however, if a person pushes him or herself to succeed, said person will do just that. In time we try and try and when we don’t “succeed” the way we have been taught in this life to “succeed,” we look into the mirror and simply say, “Who is that failure?” that “failure” isn't a failure at all, but a person who pushed him or herself to do his or her best. The fact that you tried automatically extracts yourself from making that choice to fail; however, instead, you succeeded.
You succeeded in trying and making the knowledgeable choice of not giving up. Similar to failure, determination is also a choice. These two do not necessarily get along; archenemies if you will. But we were given the gift of choice and can choose to fail or be determined. Determined to continue to move forward, dragging our past along with us. Think about when you were a child, remember when we would throw all of our greatest toys onto our favorite blanket and drag them around the house? Did those toys all stay on the blanket? Not in my case; my toys would slowly fall off and I would just keep going... by the time I got to my destination I had one toy left and that would be the toy I would play with. Think of life as that blanket... so much baggage is weighing down our lives, but if we push forward that baggage will slowly “fall” off of our blanket of life. No, we don’t forget about those things, just like as children we didn’t forget about those other toys... we just realized that they were in a completely different room and we didn’t want to go back and get them.
In the same way, that baggage left behind still happened, but we can learn to realize that those things happened in the past and belong in the past. We can learn to forgive ourselves and, again, continue to move forward. So, make the choice: Failure? or Determination?
Sorry, but I couldn’t let this be left unsaid.
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